MP3: The Sad Case of Walter Scott

In what feels like a never-ending list of dead unarmed black men, at least one cop will possibly be brought to justice in the case of Walter Scott. The South Carolina man, who was shot eight times in back, was fleeing from police officer Michael Slager. While the officer alleged that Scott grabbed the officer’s Taser, bystander video shows a very different story. The officer is being charged with murder.
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In his recently published article in New York Magazine, titled “Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say,” Jonathan Chait speaks for all those that are disenfranchised by today’s politically correct culture. That’s right, white, straight men! No longer will you have to sit in silence and be sensitive to the blacks or the browns or the gays or the womens! Get over yourselves already! But as the clip above with CUNY Pro...

Imagine the sadness of having a miscarriage, then realizing that you need a way for the fetus to pass through your body. Your doctor prescribes Misoprotol, a drug that is also used in abortions, instead of invasive surgery. Then you go to Walmart to get your prescription and the pharmacist refuses to give it to you based on his or her personal beliefs. Turns out in Georgia where this occurred, this has been acceptabl...

You’re probably aware of the national holiday known as the Superbowl. We sit down to try and understand all that happened on Sunday, especially why you wouldn’t just throw a pass to someone who’s nickname is Beast Mode.
Team Blackness discussed all the fun that is America’s Christmas, a snowball fight in New Rochelle that went horribly awry, and D’Angelo’s revolutionary performance on Saturday Night Li...

So you know that whole free speech thing we’re supposed to have as Americans? Well, turns out that some Republicans in North Carolina disagree. Republicans passed a last-minute budget cut that would strip $3 million from the University of North Carolina School of Law.
State Sen. Terry Van Duyn, a Democrat from Buncombe County, asserted that the move had been done to punish the UNC School of Law after they refused ...

Apparently this Confederate flag business is like whack-a-mole: when you get someone to pull it down, it goes back up somewhere else. In this case, it’s Florida:
A county board in Florida has voted unanimously to make sure the Confederate flag continues flying atop a public site honoring deceased police officers,WKMG reports. According to the local news outlet, members of the Marion County Board of County Commiss...